Over the last few days I have been conducting a few experiments to look at a number of challenges, while also having a little bit of fun playing with some nice new shiny toys and technology. The big goals were to see: a) how easy it would be to integrate Biomedical Concepts (BCs) with FHIR… Continue reading…
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Light, A Tunnel and another Grand Départ
As quite a few of you will know I follow professional road cycling. Even with the dark side of the sport with the various doping scandals I love cycling, I love riding myself and I love watching the sport, and no race comes bigger than the Tour de France. The 2016 edition will start at Mont-St-Michel on… Continue reading…
Wear Sunscreen
An odd title for a blog post on clinical data standards; the words come from a famous essay by Mary Schmich written for the Chicago Tribune entitled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. I was reminded of it on the flight home from the CDISC Interchange in Vienna because within the essay… Continue reading…
CDISC Standards: Assessing the Impact of Change
Introduction This post relates to the presentation given on Wednesday 27th April at the CDISC EuroInterchange in Vienna. As in previous years this post provides a narrative to go with the slides as my slides tend to be rather pictorial. Hopefully the write-up will provide those who attended something useful to refer to post the event while, for those who could… Continue reading…
Over For Another Year
I always lament the passing of July. As we leave the third week of the month it mark the passing of my annual cycling extravaganza, the Tour de France. This year I managed to spend the first week in France watching the race following it from Northern France down across the north of the country… Continue reading…
Simple MDR Tools
Last 5 Posts In Series A Bit Of A Tangent Terminology And ISO 25964 All Things To All Men – ISO 11179 So Many To Choose From Requirements & Technology In yesterday’s post I outlined the simple MDR and study build tool that I have been put together over the last few weeks. As I… Continue reading…
A Bit Of A Tangent
Last 5 Posts In Series Terminology And ISO 25964 All Things To All Men – ISO 11179 So Many To Choose From Requirements & Technology A Little Step Back Introduction It has been a while since I last posted so I am going to try and explain that there is a good reason for this. I… Continue reading…
Research Concepts – A What, Why and How
Introduction Today (Wednesday 6th May 2015) I gave a presentation at the EuroInterchange in Basel about Research Concepts based on work I have performed over the last the five or more years. Last year at the CDISC Interchange I provided a write up to accompany my presentation and, as some of you may know my slides… Continue reading…
Latest Terminology Update
As you are all probably aware CDISC now updates the controlled terminology on a quarterly basis and the latest release came out in late March. I wrote about some of the issues with the terminology when the last release came out but this will just be a short post to point out some of the… Continue reading…
End-to-End Process, What Is It?
I have had a few conversations over the past couple of weeks about ‘End-to-End’ clinical solutions and standards that started me thinking. I and many others have talked about End-to-End in a rather casual way in the past and I started to wonder what do we mean by this term, what is it in reality, can… Continue reading…